Scrapping offside rule just pure lunacy

I am sure Gianni Infantino had a good head on his shoulders before he was given the top job at football's world governing body.

The same could be said for former world player of the year Marco van Basten, who is now a technical director at FIFA.

But after Infantino's proposal, which was later ratified, to increase the number of teams at the World Cup finals from 32 to 48, and now van Basten's latest ridiculous idea to scrap offside - among other things - I just wonder if part of the job description at FIFA is to see how far you can get with birdbrain schemes.

Here are the ideas that van Basten, a former top player with Ajax, AC Milan and the Netherlands, has put forward: